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March 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Election Headquarters Director Seyyed Sowlat Mortazavi said on Saturday afternoon that the final results for all the country’s voting districts, except for Tehran, would most likely be announced on Sunday afternoon.
Mortazavi added that candidates will face a run-off vote in some constituencies.
In the capital Tehran, votes are still being counted, with senior incumbent principlist MPs Gholam Ali Haddad-Adel and Mohammad-Hassan Aboutorabi currently in the lead. Due to its population, 30 MPs represent Tehran city in parliament.
Prominent reformist figures, including MPs Mostafa Kavakebian, Mohammadreza Khabbaz, and Qodratollah Alikhani, have not been reelected.
Parvin Ahmadinejad, the sister of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and long-time principlist lawmaker Ahmad Nateq-Nouri, the brother of former Majlis speaker Ali-Akbar Nateq-Nouri, also were not able to win seats in parliament.
More than 64 percent of eligible voters cast ballots in Iran’s parliamentary election, with 75 percent of the candidates from the principlist camp winning seats in the legislature, according to unconfirmed results.
Over 48 million Iranian citizens were eligible to vote in the election, 3.9 million of them for the first time.
Voter turnout in Tehran was 48 percent.
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